Do post-pandemic bronchiolitis require more ventilatory support? Perspective from a level II hospital by Gonçalo Passos Croca, Catarina Mendonça, Teresa Magalhães, Mariana Viegas, Catarina Gomes

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Trajectory Based Prioritized Double Experience Buffer for Sample-Efficient Policy Optimization by Shengxiang Li, Ou Li, Guangyi Liu, Siyuan Ding, Yijie Bai

“…We evaluate our method on the reinforcement learning suit of Open AI Gym tasks, and the results show that the proposed method can learn more steadily and achieve higher performance than existing methods.…”
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PCSK9 is upregulated and correlated with more severe disease condition but fails to predict treatment outcomes in psoriasis patients by Xuwen Yin, Lei Shi, Ni Zhang, Heng Li, Jianwen Long, Xinjian Yu

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Alternative Nonparametric Test and Sample Size Procedures for the Comparison of Several Location Shifts by Show-Li Jan, Gwowen Shieh

“…Abstract The Kruskal–Wallis test is widely recommended as a nonparametric counterpart to the ANOVA F procedure for comparing more than two treatments. However, the associated asymptotic chi-square distribution tends to be conservative, especially for small sample sizes. …”
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Mechanism–Data Collaboration for Characterizing Sea Clutter Properties and Training Sample Selection by Wenhao Chen, Yong Zou, Zhengzhou Li, Shengrong Zhong, Haolin Gan, Aoran Li

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method provides a more accurate representation of sea clutter characteristics. …”
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Unified Hybrid Censoring Samples from Power Pratibha Distribution and Its Applications by Hebatalla H. Mohammad, Khalaf S. Sultan, Mahmoud M. M. Mansour

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Residues Analysis and Dissipation Dynamics of Broflanilide in Rice and Its Related Environmental Samples by Guai Xie, Wenwen Zhou, Mingxia Jin, Ailin Yu, Lei Rao, Horan Jia, Juan Luo, Yichang He, Baotong Li

“…Herein, we present a method for the quantitative analysis of broflanilide residues in water, soil, and rice samples from a paddy field in Jiangxi Province, China. …”
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Robust Single Sample Per Person Face Recognition with Probabilistic Illumination Enhancement by Muhammad Tariq Siddique, Ibrahim Venkat, Shah Hasan Shah Newaz, Sharul Tajuddin

“… The challenges imposed by the Single Sample Per Person face recognition problem become especially critical when face images are captured in uncontrolled environments, which typically involve variations in illumination, facial expression, pose, occlusion, and more. …”
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Improved results on sampled-data synchronization control for chaotic Lur'e systems by Xinyu Li, Wei Wang, Jinming Liang

“…Utilizing these conditions, we compute the sampling controller gains through an enhanced iterative conditioned cone complementarity linearization iteration algorithm, thereby achieving synchronization of the master-slave system over more extended sampling periods. …”
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A joint likelihood estimator of relatedness and allele frequencies from a small sample of individuals by Jinliang Wang

“…Using simulated and empirical data, I show that the new method is much less biased and more accurate than previous methods, providing almost unbiased relatedness and inbreeding estimates, when the sampled individuals are few or/and contain many close relatives. …”
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Occupational Visibility of COVID- 19 Disaster Heroes: Analysis from the Sample of Nurse by İlknur Aydın Avci, Özen Kulakaç, Mesiya Aydın

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ASSESSMENT RESULTS OF COLLECTION SAMPLES OF WINTER WHEAT ON TOLERANCE TO SMUT (TILLETIA LEVIS) by N. V. Shishkin, T. G. Derova, D. M. Marchenko

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FAVIS: Fast and versatile protocol for non-destructive metabarcoding of bulk insect samples. by Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, Piotr Łukasik, Mateusz Buczek, Junchen Deng, Emily A Hartop, Harald Havnås, Monika Prus-Frankowska, Carina R Ugarph, Paulina Viteri, Anders F Andersson, Tomas Roslin, Ayco J M Tack, Fredrik Ronquist, Andreia Miraldo

“…Metabarcoding (high-throughput bulk sequencing of marker gene amplicons) offers a cost-effective and relatively fast method for characterizing insect community samples. …”
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Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample by Emily J. Furtado, M. Catalina Camacho, Jenna H. Chin, Deanna M. Barch

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ON LIMITING THE VOLUME FRACTION OF PARTICLES IN THE DISPERSE SAMPLE (FOR THE TASkS ON CONTROLLING THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES) by A. A. Sandulyak, M. N. Polismakova, D. O. Kiselev, D. A. Sandulyak, A. V. Sandulyak

“…Direct experiments based on the ponderomotive Faraday method are realized with the use of a powder sample within the range of volume fraction γ ≤ 0.3 (for disperse phase - magnetite). …”
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Long-Term DNA Storage of Challenging Forensic Casework Samples at Room Temperature by Chloé Scherer, Jean-Marc Josse, Naura Ikadoumène, Joséphine Gibert, Sylvain Hubac, Francis Hermitte

“…<b>Background:</b> The success of forensic genetics has led to considerable numbers of DNA samples that must be stored. For example, the genetic casework unit of the forensic institute of the French gendarmerie analyzes more than 70,000 casework samples per year mainly from swabs that are fully consumed during DNA extraction. …”
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Peculiarities of the morphology of liver biopsy samples of donors above 60 years of age by I. M. Iljinsky, N. P. Mozheyko, D. V. Voronov, M. G. Minina, O. M. Tsirulnikova

“…Dystrophic processes are the result of more severe ischemic injury to the liver of elderly donors. …”
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The value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing with blood samples for the diagnosis of disseminated tuberculosis by Jing Ma, Yongfang Jiang, Yongfang Jiang, Yongfang Jiang, Yan He, Huaying Zhou

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to assess the clinical value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) of blood samples for the identification of disseminated tuberculosis (DTB).MethodsA total of 48 individuals suspected of DTB were enrolled. …”
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Girls, mental health problems, and offending: findings from a community sample by Linn Persson, Anna-Karin Ivert

“…Methods Data were drawn from the Malmö Individual and Neighbourhood Development Study (MINDS), a longitudinal study which comprises a random sample of 525 adolescents (~ 20%) born in 1995 and living in Malmö, Sweden, in 2007. …”
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Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: rates and clinical correlates in a community sample by Jon E. Grant, Sophie Boutouis, Madison Collins, Samuel R. Chamberlain, Samuel R. Chamberlain

“…BackgroundThis study sought to examine the rate of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) in a sample of adults drawn from the community and its associated mental health correlates.MethodsAn online survey of “Personality, Mental Health, and Well-Being” was distributed via Prolific to 300 adults aged 18 to 75 years. …”
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